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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Advance property limitation

Please refer the Case TS006169109 where IBM Tech suggested that currently there is limitation of 20 parms that can only be added as advance property. We had a scenario where advance settings done at dispatcher level were wiped out (Report , Batch ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enabling readonly mode for database or user. (DB2 LUW)

Would like to see a db level and a user level parameter to enable readonly mode at database level or user level. Currently need to run set of statements to achieve this, which makes management difficult. A single statement to enable readonly mode ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Support different applications recursive direct connect to SSM

We have currently configured our recursive application to use two different applications (parent and child), in order to accommodate the hostfactory restriction of using ondemand for parent application and spot fleet for child application. In doin...
12 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Populate from schedule choices during Run Once

Some Report Admins are noticing a different in the "Run Once" option in Cognos 11 vs. Cognos 10:In C10, the "Run once" link in the schedule page gave you an option to either run the schedule right then with all the saved values (prompts, outputs, ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Support of Temporary AWS credentials for S3 Cloud Storage

In order to retrieve the access key and secret required for configuring report output delivery to Amazon S3 a user with IAM role is required. Internal security is pushing back on issuing a user with that role. Not sure what the alternatives are, b...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Create error message or revert back to SS home page when a user is not configured in Guardian.

When a user has SS access, but is not configured in SP, the SP log in screen displays. The user will attempt to log in here and will not be able to continue- this can be very confusing and cause phone calls to our support team. We need either an e...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Increase medium performance to upload data via FastMap

The medium performance to upload data via FastMap is unacceptable by the client. The uploading time of 3 records per second must be reduced to 6 records per second. We are referring to the simple upload, with just the standard FastMap checks, with...
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Future consideration

Run more than one consolidations simoultenously

In Cognos Controller we we are able to run only one consolidation at a time. It does not allow other consolidation to run once the first one is finished. Can we enable option or anything change in system that can allow to run more than one consoli...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Auto populate tax and other statistical accounts calculation for Journals

For journal impacting PL, Tax lines are manually calculated and updated to journal including statistical accounts. System should auto add tax lines based on Tax rates per country by adding option in journal like "Calculate tax".
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add value to comments from PAfE reports

When adding comments to a cell from a PAW view the current cell value is always saved with the comment, for some reason this is not the case when adding a comment to the same cell from a PAfE report published to PAW, in this case the Value is alwa...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration